In daily life, we all advocate less oil and less salt, which is a very healthy diet. But if you don't put oil in cooking, the food can get really bad. So when cooking, we recommend vegetable oil.
Olive oil belongs to vegetable oils. It can be said that it is a pure natural food raw material. In everyday life, people who eat olive oil regularly bring a lot of benefits to your body. Let's take a look.
Why is it healthier to eat olive oil?
In our cooking, grease is one of the indispensable raw materials, is our grease not as healthy as olive oil? International olive oil experts believe that what is very different from other oils and fats is first reflected in the production process of olive oil. For seed oils, extraction with solutes is a necessary process, while olive oil does not need to be extracted.
There are extracted seed oils in which the acid will dissolve the epidermis of the stomach and intestines, and after a long period of accumulation, coupled with high temperature cooking, it is likely to lead to the appearance of gastrointestinal lesions. Olive oil is a fruit juice oil separated from olive fruit, does not need to add other substances, and maintains a natural and natural color in the production.
In particular, virgin olive oil, in fact, can be considered to be a kind of juice directly squeezed from the olive direct fruit, is a pure extraction process, will more fully maintain its nutritional function, so it is healthier to eat.
What are the benefits of eating olive oil regularly for the body?
1. Anti-aging
Among the many ingredients of olive oil, carotene and chlorophyll give olive oil yellow-green, while chlorophyll plays a metabolic role, promotes cell growth, helps to beautify the appearance, and reduces the appearance of wrinkles. Experiments have shown that the antioxidants contained in olive oil can eliminate free radicals in the body, restore the health of human internal organs, prevent brain aging, and prolong life.
2. Anti-radiation effect
Since olive oil contains polyphenols and lipopolysaccharides, olive oil also has a radiation protection function, and before using the computer for a long time, it can be massaged with olive oil on the face and the corners of the eyes, and the same effect can be achieved by using olive oil-rich bath products.
3. Prevent platelet clotting
Consuming olive oil can increase the content of oleic acid in the cell membranes of platelets, oleic acid can prevent platelets from clotting, and can reduce the content of arachidonic acid, and this effect of olive oil can reduce the probability of heart disease.
4. Helps to restore the spirit
Fresh olive oil is rich in protein, calcium, iron, phosphorus and other minerals, vitamin A, vitamin B, vitamin K and vitamin E and other vitamins, the oil fried with olive fruit can also strengthen the heart, promote blood circulation, make people energetic. For this reason, olive oil is also considered by nutritionists to be "a strong agent for young people" and a "tonic for the elderly".
In addition to eating olive oil, there are 3 ways to skin care
Olive oil skin care method 1: apply to the face
The most direct way of olive oil skin care is care, you can clean the dirt of the facial skin, dry the skin with a clean towel, directly use a cotton swab to pick olive oil and apply it to the skin, and then cover the towel from above. This allows the skin to better absorb the nutrients found in olive oil.
Olive oil skin care method 2: olive oil + milk
In olive oil and milk are fully mixed to form a very good moisturizing skin nutrition mask, prepare a small cup of fresh pure milk, plus five or six drops of olive oil to stir the two well with each other, mix with the appropriate amount of flour, make a puree mask,
After adjusting evenly, apply to the skin for 20 minutes and rinse off with water. If you stick to this application for a long time, it will increase the elasticity of the skin and make the skin more vibrant.
Olive oil skin care method three: olive oil + eggs
You can prepare an egg, an appropriate amount of olive oil, flour. Mix the three together, stir well, apply to the skin for 20 minutes, wash the skin clean, and add flour to the mask to make the mask more viscous.
You can also mix eggs with olive oil directly into a clean vial without adding flour, store it in the refrigerator, take it out every day and apply it to your face, and use it for a long time to make your skin smooth and smooth.
How to distinguish between good and bad olive oil
1, look at the acidity indicated on the bottle signature, the national standard stipulates that the extra virgin olive oil is less than or equal to 0.8%
2, look at the fatty acid content indicated on the label, the higher the unsaturated fatty acid content, the better the quality of olive oil,
3, not the more expensive the olive oil, the better, it may also be that the purchase price of olive oil is not so high, but the merchants deliberately inflate the price in order to make profits, and the best olive oil producing areas in the world are Italy, Greece and Spain.
4, olive oil is not good to open the bottle to smell the taste, the best olive oil will have a very strong smell of grass, which means that the olive oil in your hand is completely cold squeezed out,
If there is no taste, there must be chemical intervention to deodorize. And it's not that the clear olive oil is just good olive oil, there's a lot of pulp sediment, it feels a lot like a sticky juice, but that's the best olive oil.
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